Ideas for schools that are urban(ish), midsize (about 5000-20000ish), and anywhere:
Reach:
Brown
UChicago
Columbia
Duke
Harvard (too big?)
MIT
Penn
Yale
Low reach:
Georgetown
Rice
Vanderbilt
Washington U in St. Louis
High match:
Carnegie Mellon
Emory
USC (Southern Cal)
Tufts
Match:
Boston College
Brandeis
Case Western
Fordham
Lehigh
U of Miami
U of Rochester
SMU
Tulane
Wake Forest
Low match:
Marquette
Syracuse
TCU
Safety (lots of merit):
New Mexico State (~25000 students)
U of New Mexico (ditto)
Ole Miss (ditto)
Merit will be fairly easy to find at the match level and lower, but harder to find among reaches. But reaches tend to have better need-based aid.
If you’re willing to go small, including LACs will yield more merit options.